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Rule 1: Detail Guidelines

Not blatantly obvious observations, but obscure enough that people could have missed it, or they noticed it but the significance didn’t click. Doesn’t need to be intentional. Obviously, obscurity is subjective and that is taken into account when moderating. Use the "Detail" flair for these posts.

Rule 2: Flair your post.

This includes the “Verified” flair (claiming the creators meant for it), “Easter Egg” (a hidden gem that was meant to go unnoticed), and “Trivia” (obscure facts that are otherwise unimportant). If your post makes any of these claims, the right flair is needed and you must provide proof in the comments or the text of the post, otherwise it may be reflaired “Detail.”

Rule 3: Comment rules. (hover for details)

Be civil. Uncivil comments including "detail is obvious" will be removed and may get you banned. Political comments may be removed because they can easily devolve into off-topic arguments.

Rule 4: Titles must include the movie name.

All submissions must include the name of the movie in the title.

Rule 5: Explain your post.

Make sure your submission has an explanation either in the title or in the comments and add "(explanation in comments)" to your title.

Rule 6: No recent movies or spoilers in titles.

No spoilers in the title or untagged comments. Don't browse /new if you're worried about this. Until a movie receives recognized home release in the US (via Physical Media/Digital Demand), it's not eligible for /r/MovieDetails.

Possibly too much Iodide (anti-radiation pills), Colloidal Silver, or it could be a form of methemoglobinemia.

In the case of silver, the metal takes up in the skin and is actually reacting to light in the same way that silver reacts in camera film. You could conceivably make your face into a photograph, with the right stencil.

Yo, listen up, here's a story
About a little guy that lives in a blue world
And all day and all night and everything he sees is just blue
Like him inside and outside
Blue his house with a blue little window and a blue Corvette
And everything is blue for him
And himself and everybody around
'Cause he ain't got nobody to listen (to listen)

The symbol unsettles me.. it shows a drop of blood, signifying sacrifice, along with alpha, beta and gamma particles/rays, which doesn't give the impression of, but clearly signifies dangerous ionizing radiation.

The issue he mentioned with the difficulty of attracting skilled candidates to submarine crews made me think of 2 things - a) a Reddit post I’d read about how notorious submarine crews are for promotion by presence aka those who can stick around the longest aren’t always the brightest but end up with promotions due to their seniority and b) whether submarines are something that can be automated? I imagine that often times the vessels are: 1. Inaccessible to the signals that would allow for remote control and 2. Would give away their position if they were communicating with whatever source was controlling the non-automated components,
And as such I wonder how this aspect of warfare will change with technological advances.

Will you have smaller crews with more automated components? Does this present greater risks if that individual is compromised and you have less of a crew to hold them accountable? Etc.

I don't think they would be easily remote controllable. To communicate with a sub, you need to use VLF or ELF range transmissions, which can penetrate to roughly 30-300m below sea level - higher frequency waves simply can't penetrate deep enough to reach the subs. The issue with this is that VLF transmitters are large - several km across, and ELF transmitters are huge - think spanning an entire state. They're also ridiculously inefficient, with ELF transmitters basically requiring a dedicated power plant to power them. On top of this, the data transmission rate is ridiculously low - a few hundred bits per second for VLF transmissions, and tens of seconds per bit for ELF range transmissions. Finally, the communication is one way, so not particularly useful for remote control.

And, now, the latest innovation? Women. In a totally enclosed space with almost no privacy. For a long, uninterrupted deployment. And NO, ZERO, outside communications. Hard enough for a single-sex crew. Put them together, and assume there will be no personal relationships built up, with no possibility of external relief (no port-calls, no phone-calls, no mail, no email, no Skype, little news. For a generation that grew-up on social media that can’t put a phone down for two nanoseconds without having a nervous breakdown?). And they say there will be no problems? Oh, PLEASE!

Actually, it's showing the movement of the particles in a magnetic field.

An alpha particle is basically a helium nucleus, which has a positive charge. Assuming a magnetic field that points upwards (out of the screen), then the magnetic force on the alpha particle will point to the left of it's current forwards motion, causing it to spiral counterclockwise.

A beta particle is an electron, which is negatively charged. Since it has the opposite charge, it spirals the other direction (clockwise). It also has less charge (edit: thanks u/obligh) than a beta particle, so its movement will have a larger radius (which is why it curves less hard).

A gamma particle is a photon, which is not charged. Thus, in the presence of a magnetic field it will not change its direction and simply continue straight forward.

Additionally, the alpha and beta particles move in opposite directions due to their opposite charges. It looks like the idea stems from how they behave in an electric field (again, gamma goes straight through)

Over the coming days and weeks, 134 servicemen were hospitalized with acute radiation sickness (ARS), of which 28 firemen and employees died in the days-to-months afterward from the radiation effects.[4] In addition, approximately fourteen radiation induced cancer deaths among this group of 134 hospitalized survivors, were to follow within the next ten years (1996).

It depends how much exposure they got. The firemen got the worst, they were collapsing and dying at the scene. Then there were the roof shovelers, the helicopter pilots for dumping boron sand onto the reactor, and the underwater divers. As well as the reactor control room operators, some of whom attempted to save the situation.

Some folks got nothing at all, continued to live and die an old age death. Some folks died within 2 weeks, one of whom described "I got up out of the hospital bed this morning, and the skin slipped off my leg like a loose sock."

I’ve always been curious as to what the remains/buried bodies looked like for the firemen who collapsed from massive exposure. Basically the DNA in every cell in their body gets scrambled into nonsense from the radiation. I wonder if that means they leave behind a skeleton in the same way a healthy person does when they die...

Just bought it from Goodwill a few days ago. By the end of the first story, I was sobbing, but I couldn’t put it down. I’m glad to have read it, but I don’t think I’ll ever take it down from my bookshelf.

It is pseudo-3D, in as much as all 3D movie/TV technologies are pseduo-3D. The effect works by filtering colours instead of separating polarised light (indistinguishable to humans) or shutters alternating between eyes in sync with the screen. More costly in experience and noticeable, but the same principle as the other technologies.

No. I have that one at home. There are two, though, so be careful. The one you need is the 2-disc collector's edition Blu-ray+DVD+Digital Copy and NOT anything that says 3D Blu-ray. 4 pairs of blue/red glasses comes with. I you get it used, you can buy those glasses separately for a few bucks. I've since upgraded to a 3D projector, but I still pull it out every now and again.

No, that's why they're doing it the old-school (red/blue) way - it just changes the picture to have the red and blue lines, and you use the red/blue glasses, and you're good to go!

I got a kick out of the outwardly 3-D scenes with this method (like looking through the window at the rain (if I remember correctly), to bring up a subtle one), so it works - probably not as well as a theater, of course.

Although, from secondhand experience, radiotherapy on the brain can have some pretty big effects on cognition (my dad had radiotherapy on his brain). He went in for an... MRI? CT scan? I can't recall. Anyway, apparently what happened to him was outwardly like dementia, but a bit different when you looked inside. The memory centres were fine, but the pathways to recall the memories were shot at.

I've heard that adults are way more creeped out by Coraline than children are. I can't remember where I heard that, possibly Neil Gaiman's tumblr, but I believe it. There are some very adult fears in that movie, where kids just see it as an adventure and a villain that the protagonist defeats.